These are pictures of my the Peace Monument in Morokulien. Morokulien is a small place on the border between Sweden and Norway, and is also known as The Republic of Peace. It is also to become my new home which is why I've been paying it frequent visits lately

In 1814 Sweden forced Norway into a union under the Bernadotte dynasty, right after Norway declared its independence from the previous union with Denmark and drew up the declaration of independence. The union with Sweden was peacefully dissolved in 1905. The Peace Monument was raised in 1914, a hundred years after the union was created, and is centered exactly on the border between Sweden and Norway.

Morokulien itself came about much later, in 1959, being created as a friendship republic by the radio personalities Lennart Hyland from Sweden and Randi Kolstad from Norway. The name is the concatenation of the Norwegian and Swedish words for "fun", "moro" and "kul", with an ending to round it off nicely.

The Monument as seen from the courtyard, with border marker 67 in front:

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